Media, Literature and Political Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa

ISBN-13: 9783031484308 / Angielski

Isaac Mhute; Esther Mavengano

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Esther Mavengano & Isaac Mhute

Part I: Media and Political Transformation

2. Data accessibility and digital democracy: unpacking the political transformation problem in Zimbabwe

Pedzisai Ruhanya, Trust Matsilele & Bekezela Gumbo

3. The scribe and the autopsy: bullet or stab wounds? Post-event functionality image repair and the architecture of political expediency in Zimbabwean politics

Andrew Mutingwende

4. Civic engagement, public participation and trust in digital space: the emerging new face of democracy in Africa

Desmond Onyemechi Okocha and Samuel Akpe

5. Media and democracy: can the news media rightfully claim its role as the Fourth Estate in Zimbabwe Politics?

Pedzisai Ruhanya, Trust Matsilele & Bekezela Gumbo

6. Subverting state censorship: social media spaces and the struggle for human rights and democracy in Uganda

Kizito Michael George

7. Stuck in the pitfall: Challenges confronting South African government in transforming public governance and enforcing leadership accountability in contemporary time

Nomaswazi Portia Dlamini and Sunday Paul C. Onwuegbuchulam

Part II: Literature and Political Transformation

8. Inkosi yinkosi ngabantu”: Understanding governance from the perspective of African indigenous knowledge and ethos of ubuntu/unhu

Faith Sibanda

9. Literature as a platform for addressing poor governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dorcus Motswadira

10. A pragma-semiotic analyses of ideologies in Somewhere in Africa (2012) by Franck Rajah Arase and The Tyrant (2017) by Chimezie Oguzie

Mulor Ndilena

11. Charles Munganasa’ s 'Operation Restore Regasi': beyond entertainment

Joel Hita

12. The sociolinguistics of the periphery: re-envisioning transformative communication through translingual strategies in selected Zimbabwean literary ouevre

Esther Mavengano

13. Conclusion

Isaac Mhute and Esther Mavengan

O autorze

Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe and Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in the Department of English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe.

Blurb

This book examines the role of the media and literature in transforming politics and governance in southern Africa. Drawing inspiration Critical Language Policy theory, it demonstrates how politicians utilise language and the media to legitimate their authority, influence citizens’ behaviour, and how they vote. Interdisciplinary in approach, it covers themes including marketing, political advertising, activism, violence, elections, and the media. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, governance and political communication, as well as linguistics, media studies and African politics.

Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe and Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in the Department of English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe.